I am currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Peking University School of Government (PKUSG) and a Faculty Associate at Peking University Research Center for Contemporary China (RCCC), Institute of State Governance Studies, and Institute of Public Governance. 

My research interests include political psychology and behavior, representation, and politics of identity & framing/discourse, particularly their intersections with varying development, institutional, policy, and leadership dynamics in China and across the globe. I am also interested in international-domestic linkages, and security & conflict. 

My dissertation, The Making of a Divided Leviathan: Redistribution, Information, and Mass Politics in China, examines via mixed methods how China's redistributive scheme and information maneuver disaggregate the multi-layered state authorities in mass public’s political perceptions and actions, thereby structurally entrenching top-down authoritarian rule. It contributes to a new avenue where the studies of authoritarianism, mass politics, and intergovernmental relations intersect.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science (with a QMSS emphasis) under the mentorship of M. Kent Jennings from the University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A. in  Public Policy & Management from Tsinghua University, and B.A.s in Political Science & Public Administration and Economics respectively from Peking University. 

I can be reached at yjpku05@gmail.com ;  yjpku05@126.com ; yanjun_liu@pku.edu.cn

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